I am a graduate compiling a directed reading on 19th century U.S. gender topics. Thus far, I have consulted those listed below. Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Baym, Nina Woman's Fiction, American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860
Clinton, Catherine The Plantation Mistress
Cott, Nancy The Bonds of Womanhood
Faust, Drew Gilpin Mother of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Fox-Genovese, E. Within the Plantation Household
Jones, Jaqueline Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow
Kelley, Mary Private Woman, Public Stage
Ryan, Mary Cradle of the Middle Class
The Empire of the Mother
Smith-Rosenberg, C. Disorderly Conduct
Tompkins, Jane Sensational Designs
Bleser, Carol In Joy and In Sorrow: Women, Family and Marriage in the Victorian South
Clinton, Catherine & Silber, Nina, eds; Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War
Deutsch, Sarah No Separate Refuge
Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence
Gordon, Linda Pitied But Not Entitled
Greenberg, David Construction of Heterosexuality
Halttuten, Confidence Men and Painted Women
Kerber, Women of the Republic
Mathews, Glenna Just a Housewife
Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion
Osterud, Nancy Grey Bonds of Community
Pascoe, Peggy Relations of Rescue
Ryan, Mary P. Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880
Sklar, two biographies on Catherine Beecher and Florence Kelley
Skocpol, Theda Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
Stansell, Christine City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (Chicago & Urbana; Univ. of Illinois Press, 1987)
Yellin, The Abolitionist Sisterhood, Women and Sisters
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